Allows Amazon Alexa to control Google Chromecast
Now with 100% less PHP!
#Current Features: ###Play Youtube Videos (Based on Sample Utterances) By saying "Alexa, ask ChromeCast play Jontron Home Improvement", Alexa will send the video URL to your Chromecast Python Script.
###Pause Videos By saying "Alexa, ask ChromeCast to Pause", Alexa will pause the Chromecast.
###Resume Videos By saying "Alexa ask ChromeCast to resume", Alexa will resume playback.
###Changing the Volume By saying "Alexa ask ChromeCast to change the volume to 50", Alexa will change the volume to the specified volume
#Requirements
- youtube-dl
- pymysql (
pip install pymysql) - pychromecast (
pip install pychromecast) - Youtube API Key
- Port Forwarded LAMP server (or WAMP on Windows)
#Installation
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In the index.py, replace all the connection strings with your information.
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Zip up all the files EXCEPT raspberry.py and the speechAssets folder
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On AWS Lambda, Create A new Skill with Basic Execution and The Alexa Skills Kit Event Source with Python 2.7 as the interpreter.
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IMPORTANT: Make sure that index is the event, lambda_handler is the handler, and Python is the Interpreter
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Upload the ZIP to AWS Lambda
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Use intentSchema.json and sample-utterances.txt to set your Intents and Sample Utterances.
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In raspberry.py, replace:
- the connection string with the same connection string from index.py.
- YOUTUBE_API_KEY with your Youtube API Key
- CHROMECAST_NAME with your default chromecast name.
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Upload raspberry.py to your Raspberry Pi
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Run raspberry.py